1.3% ▼ -54.9%
Lower than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 1.3%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Murtoa · Urban Centre
Jobs & Industry in Murtoa
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the biggest employer in Murtoa, where 19.7% of workers are in this field. The area has a very small unemployment rate of 1.3%, though the proportion of adults working or looking for work has dropped significantly over the last decade.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Fewer adults are working or looking for work here than in most similar areas, at 46.6%, which is far below the national figure of 61.1%. However, unemployment is very low at 1.3%, well below the Victorian average of 5.0%.
46.6% ▼ -36.6%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 73.4%
- 2016: 73.6%
- 2021: 46.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
57.2% ▲ +5.2%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 54.4%
- 2016: 51.3%
- 2021: 57.2%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance leads the local workforce at 19.7%, followed by education and training at 11.4% and agriculture, forestry and fishing at 10.7%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
The local workforce is split evenly between professionals and labourers, who each make up 16.2% of occupations. Managers follow at 14.1%, with machinery operators and drivers at 13.1%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Jobs & Industry in Murtoa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221051/murtoa/topic/employment